Example sentences of "may therefore " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is dated December 1959 , and may therefore have been written at the time that Take a girl like you was being completed . |
| 2 | It may therefore be possible to reconcile the views of the opposing schools of thought by regarding global standardisation as the ultimate objective when substantial economies of scale are available but which may need to be modified in the context of the product concerned . |
| 3 | Some readers may therefore have identified them as the police officers referred to in our article of May 13 , 1986 . |
| 4 | They may therefore hope to arrange trials for criminals who served the dictator . |
| 5 | The present hysteria about reckless lending may therefore fade before long . |
| 6 | Many subsequently returned to their homes , all over the Soviet Union , where the local doctors may not know that they worked at Chernobyl and may therefore not recognise subsequent cancers or other problems as radiation-linked . |
| 7 | The useful age range may therefore be 20–300 ka , although its true limits have not been adequately explored . |
| 8 | Retaining the more serious label which refers to the causing of death may therefore perform a useful educative function ; it is hardly unfair to the driver , since this is the very risk against which the rules are intended to guard . |
| 9 | It may therefore be questioned whether English law takes the right approach in confining its most serious sexual offence , rape , so narrowly . |
| 10 | The law of rape may therefore extend to threats other than threats of violence , but its boundaries are most uncertain . |
| 11 | A few treasure hunters are also acting illegally ( for example , by using a metal detector in Britain on a scheduled ancient monument ) and may therefore sometimes conceal the find spot altogether or even falsify one . |
| 12 | The element of the image which suggests that as a matter of principled obligation all members of a group rushed to the aid of , say , an aggressive and irresponsible cattle-thief or rapist , may therefore be the product of the practical consideration that men related to an offender prudently assumed they would be held collectively responsible for his actions . |
| 13 | It may therefore become economically and politically expedient to encourage a shift to more labour intensive methods of primary production . |
| 14 | There may therefore be substantial building work in the vicinity of your holiday accommodation or in the resort area generally . |
| 15 | Three and four-bedded rooms in hotels are usually twin bedded rooms with extra beds ( often of the folding kind ) and may therefore be rather cramped . |
| 16 | In addition flocking may assist individuals in finding food through enhancing their searching efficiency : several advantages may therefore result from such behaviour ( Crook and Goss-Custard 1972 ; Thompson , Vertinsky and Krebs 1974 ) . |
| 17 | Although the females ' ranges are smaller than those of individual males they overlap those of several of them and may therefore turn up in more than one male community ; females in oestrus range widely , consorting with a male for a few days . |
| 18 | Those with faith are those who can ‘ see ’ , and who may therefore only engage in a limited dialogue with the ‘ blind ’ . |
| 19 | Philip Leapor may therefore have been orphaned at the age of eight . |
| 20 | He may therefore order them to act against their own interests . |
| 21 | Like-minded readers may therefore find comfort in a recent article in The Veterinary Record ( 19 January 1991 ) which describes ‘ successful pregnancy following non-surgical embryo transfer in llamas ’ . |
| 22 | An aquifer may therefore carry water from a humid area to a dry one , even a desert . |
| 23 | In particular , Thompson and Spencer 's list of the features of habituation was derived from studies of short-term examples of the phenomenon ; it may therefore be unreasonable to expect these features to be found also in latent inhibition ( see Lubow , Weiner , and Schnur 1981 ) . |
| 24 | It seems that many men , however , show little in the way of symptoms and may therefore pass on the disease quite unknowingly . |
| 25 | If I notice the banker fidget and look at his watch , I may well conjecture that the game is about to be brought to an end , and I may therefore feel tempted to defect . |
| 26 | Goldstein nevertheless warns of the bias in therapeutic transactions towards perceiving refusals as uninformed : ‘ refusals may therefore be used as a justification for challenging the capacity of the citizen to decide what is best for himself . ’ |
| 27 | The fact that the aid is an extraordinary measure and that the patient has indicated that it is a burden absolves the doctor of his duty to continue treatment , and he may therefore discontinue it by switching off the machine . |
| 28 | We may therefore take as an example of our new dichotomy between the practical and the theoretical the teaching of English . |
| 29 | Some preliminary reading may therefore be necessary . |
| 30 | You may therefore wish your employer to agree to pay some or all of the following : |